Which is all well and good, until the “benefits” of the illness outweigh the danger - a.k.a., when the mind snaps from hypomania to Mania or Psychosis.

Many famous artists & entertainers are bipolar or have experienced mania - often it’s mistaken for a show business or crazy artist mentality. And often this kind of exhibitionism is indicative of an emotional instability or budding mental illness that the public fails to notice, as the voices of the Fans (Britney is hot!) and the voices of the Puritans (She should be ashamed of herself! Women should hide their bodies! Sex is bad!) drown the moderate liberal pro-sex feminist voice that wonders if there’s something else at work emotionally. But none of us know how it feels to be that sexualized to that many people at that age. ( This is a great Op-Ed on the Britney situation) You also may recall that like Tila, Britney as a young girl felt comfortable with a kind of aggressive sexual com-modification that most teenagers don’t - I’m not shaming her for being sexually expressive, and I don’t believe in shaming women for anything they choose to do with their own body.

I felt this way when Britney Spears had her public meltdown as well, which in its way was not so different, although Brit is smarter and had more supervision. Look I just want to say something that I don’t think enough people are saying. TILA TEQUILA: Yes, yes! We’re still talking about it. I would hate to think that she’s now resorting to publicity stunts to keep herself in the public eye.” (read the rest at Dani’s myspace blog: obvs) I guess the only thing I really want to say is that when I met Tila, she was sweet and down to earth – but since the day I left the set of ‘A Shot at Love’ I’ve been wondering how sincere our interactions really were… When I met her, she seemed so kind and real. It’s been bringing back memories, and making me think back to my time on the show. Today Dani weighs in on the Tila debacle on her myspace blog: “ For the last week or so, I’ve been getting inundated with calls from the press about Tila Tequila. Dani became mainstream TV’s first genuine “butch” heart-throb.

After Tila declared she just didn’t “get” or even like “masculine” girls (which was actually precisely the moment that I decided I couldn’t take one more minute of the show and turned it off, which I realize was like five minutes into the first episode of the first season), she ended up falling for one. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All TimeĭANI CAMPBELL: Even if the overall arc of A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila seemed to push gay visibility into retrograde, it did break one barrier by introducing the world to Dani Campbell.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.Before the episode was over, Tila referred to herself as a “bitch” who could possibly be purchased with expensive jewelry 16 lesbian contestants arrived on the scene and put on a lingerie fashion show ripped from the mind of a 12-year-old boy (it’s a naughty nurse! and a naughty schoolgirl! and a naughty, um, construction worker!?) and Tila declared (very seriously), “I never, ever told anyone this before… I’m a bisexual.” Except, of course, the dozens of producers, assorted crew members, and MTV suits it took to greenlight and churn out this televised cauldron of syrup of ipecac in the first place. And this, of course, was just an appetizer. Yes, PopWatchers, within the first 300 seconds of A Shot at Love, I saw the “bisexual” “singer”/”Internet sensation” make out (with tongue) with a complete stranger, heard one dude drop the term “tea-bagging” into casual conversation, and felt my soul die a little as another one of the 16 male contestants compared dating the Asian-American reality star to eating Chinese food.

A shot of love with tila tequilla